TIVON RICE at The Henry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:57:17 -0800

LEAD PENCIL STUDIO • MOdern Painters Review

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:10:16 -0700

Retail/Commercial
Exhibition review by Jen Graves in Modern Painters.
Full review below.

SUSAN ROBB - Reviewed in Art Us Magazine

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:14:43 -0800

THE CHALLENGE NATURE PROVIDES
Exhibition review by Elizabeth Pence in artUS Magazine.
Full review below.

SUSIE j. Lee - “Shadow playing” at the art Gym, Marylhurst University

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:17:09 -0800

Exhibition Dates: January 6 - February 11, 2009
Conversation with Susie Lee: Tuesday, January 27 at noon
“Susie J. Lee is a Seattle-based artist who works with video and sound installations. Lee's Shadow Playing explores ideas of what parts of the self women keep or leave behind as they move from adolescence to adulthood...
At this writing, in early December 2008, I cannot tell you what you will experience when you come to The Art Gym in January and February 2009. I can only tell you how I envision what the artist has told me so far. Shadow Playing, like Refrain, will be a series of rooms, each with its own set of experiences. And like Refrain, the artist will use projected video and sound. Shadow Playing, while still addressing loss, has as its topic not the loss of a partner, but of parts of the self that one leaves behind in the transition from girlhood to womanhood.” --Terri M. Hopkins
More information HERE
Video interview with Susie Lee on YouTube HERE

SUSAN ROBB - Reviewed in Sculpture magazine

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:27:16 -0800

Full review by Kazuko Nakane shown below.

SUSIE J. LEE - Artnews “artists to watch”

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:03:04 -0800

In the January “Artists to Watch” issue of ARTnews magazine, Seattle artist Susie J. Lee is included with the likes of Diana Al-Hadid, Joe Bradley, Lars Laumann, Yin Xiuzhen and Shaun El C. Leonardo. The complete profile by Jori Finkel shown below.

ISAAC Layman - REVIEWED IN ART IN AMERICA

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:42:03 -0800

ISAAC LAYMAN - Seattle PI Best of 2008

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:12:49 -0800

“STRONGEST ARTIST DEBUT: Photographer Isaac Layman at Lawrimore Project. Domestic rot is for him a splendor in the grass. He makes landscapes from leftovers, serial grids from dirty ice melting in trays, and dead stars from electric burners on a stove. Working digitally, he combines layers of long exposures to get the same image stuck in a crater of a deepening visual repetition. It's something like the idea of a rose is a rose, only simultaneously, as if everyone in a crowded room suddenly said, "Rose."”
Full Article HERE

SUSAN ROBB - STRANGER BEST OF 2008

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:55:05 -0800

5 Susan Robb: The Challenge Nature Provides at Lawrimore Project.
Robb is a midcareer Seattle artist whose work is an act of devotion in the face of great discouragement. Her subject is nothing less than the state of the natural world, but her gestures in sculpture, installation, and video are as humble as the tiniest movement of a piece of wire attaching otherworldly flowers to a clump of crystals or the flying of a school of enormous garbage bags. This was her greatest show yet.

Full Article HERE

ISAAC Layman on the Seattle channel

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:00:55 -0800

Art Zone in Studio with Nancy Guppy 12-18-08
“We're closing out our 2008 season with a bang! Kathy Hsieh gives us last minute theatre tips… We tour, and eat delicious samples, at Morfey's Cake Shoppe… We mine the creative mind of Ballard gallery/store owner, Curt Steiner… We document the fast rising path of photographer Isaac Layman…And Northwest Tap Connection rocks the studio!”
Upcoming Broadcast Times:
Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:00 p.m.
Friday, December 19, 2008 9:00 p.m.
Friday, December 19, 2008 11:30 p.m.

More Info and a Sneak Peek Here

PODCAST WITH CALEB LARSEN

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:32:40 -0800

From the Stranger website:
“Caleb Larsen is a young artist (now studying at RISD and clearly very caught up in art history) who works extensively in digital media and has his first real outing in Seattle at Lawrimore Project this month. I caught up with him to talk about the generation of a patch of frost in the gallery, how to film boiling water without steaming up the camera, the restoration of the oral tradition to the epic of Gilgamesh by way of computer, mopeds, titles, and his death.” --Jen Graves

Listen Here

Lead Pencil Studio at the Boise Art Museum

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:29:31 -0800

Lead Pencil Studio | Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo will be exhibiting at the Boise Art Museum. Their exhibition After will be on view November 2008 – May 2009.
“Lead Pencil Studio seeks to be “a new voice in the emerging field created from the interdisciplinary overlap of architecture and site specific art.” Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo founded Lead Pencil Studio in 1997 and have since completed exhibition projects such as the Seattle Staircase, an outdoor installation at the San Point Arts and Cultural Exchange, and Linear Plenum, a space that “remained empty but was full at the same time. Lead Pencil Studio was recently awarded a Visual Arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation in New York, and a Special Projects grant from Arts 4Culture in Seattle. Lead Pencil Studio recently received the prestigious Prix de Rome award in architecture in 2007. For Boise Art Museum’s exhibition, Han and Milhalyo will be creating a site-specific installation titled, After, exposing contemporary thought around the impermanence of architectural structures and their impact on our collective and individual memories.” - Boise Art Museum

Installation images from my iPhone at right. [I’m amazed at the translation from Artist rendering (top image) to finished project]
Better images coming soon...

Visit Boise Art Museum’s website

Alex Schweder at The Warehouse Gallery

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:44:03 -0800

Originally debuted in Miami at Aqua Wynwood, this coming November, Alex Schweder’s Snowballing Doorway will be shown at The Warehouse Gallery, an international contemporary art venue of SUArt Galleries at Syracuse University. The Warehouse Gallery has been a member of the Coalition of Museums and Art Centers (CMAC) since 2006.
Housed in a former furniture warehouse renovated by Gluckman Mayner Architects, it is located on the edge of downtown Syracuse's lively Armory Square. The Warehouse Gallery, encompassing 2,000 square feet, comprises of a main space with 21-foot high ceilings and The Vault, a smaller room suited for more intimate projects and projections, and the street-level Window Projects space. The gallery opened to the public with its first exhibition in April 2006.

ANNE MATHERN at the seattle art museum

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:34:49 -0800

Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest  August 5, 2008–February 5, 2009  SAM Ketcham Forum Gallery
Originally put together for Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest contemporary art fair in the United States, Thermostat is a looped program of short videos by filmmakers who either live in or have spent considerable time in the Pacific Northwest. The nineteen short videos (most are 3–5 minutes long) offer a brief snapshot of the great variety of approaches taken by regional artists, but all reflect a distinctive Northwest flair.
Many of the works were shot in natural locales, revealing the artists' intimate engagement with nature, yet their sense of irony and awareness of cliché keeps these sites on edge. So do the filmmakers' choice of soundtracks, often local music, rock or grunge. Portrait #2: Trojan, by Portland-based Vanessa Renwick, shows the decommissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant looming over the Oregon countryside until it is demolished by a series of small explosions, synchronized to an original score by Sam Coomes of the band Quasi. Ron Tran set up electric guitars and drums in a park and covered them in bird seed, enticing pigeons to produce the accidental music documented in The Peckers. In Long Beach Led Zep, Kevin Schmidt performs “Stairway to Heaven” on pristine Long Beach in British Columbia.
Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest is on view in the Ketcham Forum Gallery, a space dedicated to video installations, located south of the Ticketing Desk on the Second Floor at SAM Downtown.

–Michael Darling, Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art

Watch Anne’s video, Come Stai HERE
SAM website HERE

ANNE MATHERN + CHAD WENTZEL at Crawl Space

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:27:04 -0800

THIS IS THE WORST TRIP I'VE EVER BEEN ON:
Acculturation in a Pre-Apocalyptic Age
18 October - 16 November 2008

Crawl Space member artists and best friends Anne Mathern and Chad Wentzel present new video, sound, and sculptural works responding to a stretch of solitude in the wilderness. Based on Wentzel's quasi Vision Quest of solitary truth-seeking in the Olympic National Forest, the works in This is the Worst Trip represent a kinship in the taking-on of culture and spirituality.

In Wentzel's sound piece "Dona Nobis Pacem," the artist sings a Latin hymn as learned with his younger sister in Parochial grade school. Completing the round is his sister Dana, who joins him over the phone from her new home in Alaska. Their reunion revolves not around any spiritual connection to the hymn itself but rather a connection between one another through the religious practice they assimilated fifteen years ago.

For her latest video work, Anne Mathern appropriates her best friend's sub-cultural past by memorizing and performing a freestyle rave dance the artist had recorded months prior. Taking on the absurd task of mimicking Wentzel's style and completely random movement, Mathern subverts the original expressive intentions of the dance and reduces them to a learnable cultural identity.

Anne Mathern and Chad Wentzel each received BFA degrees from the University of Washington and are long-time member artists of Crawl Space. Tacoma native Chad Wentzel has exhibited at the Aqua Art fair in Miami and throughout Seattle, including a recent solo show at Gallery 4Culture. He now lives and works in New York City. Represented locally at the Lawrimore Project, Anne's work was recently featured in Thermostat: Video And The Pacific Northwest curated by Michael Darling for the Seattle Art Museum and the 2007 Basel Miami Art Video Lounge. Her photographs are held in the permanent collections of King County Portable Works, John and Shari Behnke, and the Monsen Collection of Photography.

STRANGER REVIEW HERE

TRANSLINGUISTIC OTHER REVEW HERE

MORE ANNE MATHERN WORK HERE

DETAILS and HOURS HERE

Kerry skarbakka - Taubman Museum of Art

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:48:38 -0700

Skarbakka’s image, Trestle, was chosen as the illustration for the ad campaign for “Rethinking Landscape: Photography from the Allen G Thomas, Jr. Collection.

LEAD PENCIL STUDIO - Review in ART IN AMERICA

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:27:21 -0700

PodcasT with BETTY TOMPKINS

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:24:55 -0700

Listen to the podcast with Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger HERE
From The Stranger:
Betty Tompkins began making Fuck paintings in 1969. It was the height of minimalism and conceptual art, so she thought she’d try calling them Joined Forms. She eventually dropped the act and just called them Fuck paintings, adding Dick paintings and Cunt paintings, too.
What keeps a woman working on photorealistic paintings of hard-core heterosexual pornography for 40 years? Well, she did take a break in the late 70s and early 80s to make works that were all text, of which she says: “I bored myself silly, so I went back to sex.”
Listen to her talk about her quick rise, her years as an art-world exile, her comeback, her repeated brushes with censorship.
In person her works can be surprisingly tender; they can also be harsh and cold in the Chuck Close way (some are created by stamping words on the canvas rather than with brush strokes)...
-Jen Graves

Isaac layman wins The 2008 Betty Bowen award

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:35:43 -0700

The Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, has announced Isaac Layman as winner of the 30th annual Betty Bowen Award, which comes with an unrestricted cash-prize of $15,000. A selection of Layman’s work will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum in October 2008.

Visit Seattle Art Museum’s Website

ISAAC LAYMAN
30th Annual Betty Bowen Award Winner

Please join us this Friday, October 10th at 6:00pm in the Seattle Art Museum Plestcheeff Auditorium for the awards ceremony.

Layman and the artists receiving Special Recognition (Wynne Greenwood and Eric Elliott) will speak about their work and receive their awards.

Special thanks to the Betty Bowen Committee and the Seattle Art Museum, and congratulations to all the finalists and awardees.

Warmth,
Scott

DETAILS
What:
Awards Ceremony and Artist Talk
(Free and Open to the Public)

When:
Friday, October 10 at 6:00pm

Where:
Seattle Art Museum Downtown
Plestcheeff Auditorium
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101-2003
206.654.3100

Susan Robb Speaking at the Global Creative Leadership Summit

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:26:52 -0700

Susan Robb has been invited to be a participant at the 2008 Global Creative Leadership Summit. Joining diplomatic leaders such as Henry Kissinger, Robb joined an impressive list of innovators and leaders in New York. Robb participated in a number of panel discussions with the likes of Salman Rushdie, Jane Goodall, Michael Rovner, and others.
“For the third consecutive year the Louise Blouin Foundation will host the Global Creative Leadership Summit, bringing together an unparalleled group of participants from a multi-disciplinary field that includes heads of state, Nobel Laureates, global CEOs, top academics, technologists, artists and diplomatic leaders. The Summit provides a unique platform to address the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization focusing on topics such as: geo-economics, foreign policy, education, health, poverty and the environment. The Summit also has a goal to work with developed and developing nations alike in order to best address global issues.
The Summit has already attracted a wide range of press, including CNN, Al Jazeera, the Financial Times, the Economist, BBC, and the International Herald Tribune, and its proceedings are webcast to the world.
This invitation-only, multi-disciplinary event brings together the world’s greatest minds, with the goal of developing solutions to global issues based on best practices and creating new partnerships and collaborations.”
Global Creative Leadership Summit website here

Susie J Lee and the Art Klatch shortlisted for Genius Awards

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:00:57 -0700

Visual Arts Shortlist - Susie J Lee
“Susie Lee's appearance on the scene in 2006 was kind of wild. She was the clear standout at the show of University of Washington MFA graduates that year, and by the end of the year, she was selling out editions of her work at Miami Beach Art Basel, where she was represented by Seattle's hot new dealer Scott Lawrimore.
But beginner's luck exists even in art, and the real test of Lee's promise was this year, with her first solo show at Lawrimore Project. Before that, her best-known work was Consummation, an elegant, erotic little abstraction that involved her own body represented in a length of wood, J. S. Bach, and a video of two burning strands of twine projected horizontally across the wood. It insisted on primal disconnections, between people and between dimensions (especially digital and physical), and their refusal to resolve.
Her Lawrimore Project show, Refrain, was a Herculean effort that included a giant virtual rainstorm and several complex pieces involving sound, video, and sculpture. But it also demonstrated—especially in one elegiac landscape made of moving liquids and a video projected through a tank of water onto a screen above, in a dark room—that Lee can make the complicated technologies she uses disappear. Her work can feel like a new, naturally occurring discovery.”
JEN GRAVES

Arts Organization Shortlist - Art Klatch
“It has been more than a year since contemporary art dealer Scott Lawrimore began paying for other people's coffees and brioches every Tuesday morning.
It began at the IHOP on Capitol Hill, but the booths were too small and the atmosphere too ironic, so Lawrimore moved his moderated conversation about art and culture to the nearby Cafe Presse, where anybody is welcome to show up and talk, or just listen.
Thankfully, Lawrimore is always prepared with a ready supply of ideas and recent experiences to throw out there, and he runs the proceedings but by no means governs them. Everyone who wants a say has it, and whenever visiting artists are in town—Dario Robleto (for his show at the Frye), Oliver Herring (before TASK at the Central Library)—they show up bright and early, ready to be assailed with questions and comments, fawning and cynicism. It really is an open forum that also happens to be free and live and in person. You'd have to try in order to leave Klatch without a new thought in your head.”
JEN GRAVES

PodcasT with Leo Saul Berk at the Hedreen Gallery

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:18:52 -0700

Sited June 27-August 23, 2008   Lee Center for the Arts Hedreen Gallery
Listen to the podcast with Jen Graves here.

SuttonBeresCuller is awarded a creative capital grant!

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:27:18 -0800

Mini-Mart City Park is a temporary sculptural intervention that transforms a derelict convenience store into an indoor city park and conservatory. The installation utilizes the store’s familiar architecture and appliances, such as refrigerators and industrial shelving, and re-purposes them into meandering paths, grass, trees, seasonal plantings, a small waterfall, and a park bench. Through green building techniques and a playful visual approach, the artists’ goal is to upend the notion of "convenience" in such systems as transportation, parks and recreation, schools, libraries and art.

Mini-Mart Website

Creative Capital Website

Past news stories and more up to the minute posts coming soon...

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:22:25 -0800

Stand by.

For now, enjoy Cre. (He’s sleepy)